Getting to Know the True Essence of Tantra
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Due to the popularity of Neo-Tantra, many people now associate tantra with sex or may have preconceived notions such as it being immoral, inaccessible, or a religion. In this episode, Chandresh is raising more awareness about those misconceptions about tantra and more and shares ways that you can use tantra to unleash the artist and storyteller within you. When you tap into tantra, you can expect many benefits such as an increased spiritual consciousness, divine feminine flow and creativity, intuition, and more.
Episode Transcript
The signs of self-awareness, the mystical, complex, beautiful, ever-evolving signs of self-realization. While there are fascinating aspects of tantra that can help you transform, transmute, and experience your highest version possible, yet there are misconceptions, confusions, taboo. There is so much about tantra that still feels so unclear. While there's a side of tantra that continues to become more popular, thanks to the social media, the marketing minds behind it. But that's not the real side of tantra, I'm talking about the sexual side. It exists, but it's not the reality of tantra, it's a part of it. In this episode, I want to talk about various misconceptions about tantra, such as, is tantra only about sex? Is tantra black magic, dangerous, or based on any immoral practices? Is tantra a religion? Does it require a partner? Is it complicated and inaccessible? Or can I learn it through a book? And ultimately, I want to talk about how tantra can be used to improve your storytelling, to unleash the artist in you.
Stay till the end because the ending part of this episode is going to be all about the goddesses, the chakra, the mantra that you can cultivate to enhance your experience and journey of tantra. I'm Chandresh Bhardwaj, and this is Leela Gurukul. Namaste everyone, I hope you're feeling easy, cozy, comfortable, and ready for this episode. Take your notes because if you are a seeker, if you're curious about tantra, there's going to be lots of good, fascinating stuff for you to unfold, learn, and apply in your life. Before we get into the conversation, I want to share, Conscious Meditation Program is now open. This is our signature meditation program in Leela. And to make it accessible for majority of you. For the first time, we have two layers of this program. One layer is the signature program where you get access to all the 31 advanced tantra meditation, 15 tantra lectures, two live discussions with me per month. So a total of six calls with me.
Those are group calls, and we'll cover those six group calls in a period of three months. That's the signature program. And there is a higher version of this, which is the deep dive program. You get access to all 31 advanced tantra meditations, you get access to all the lectures, and instead of six group calls, you are getting 12 group calls. The additional six calls will be highly dedicated, sincerely dedicated to your curiosity. For those who are ambitious and willing, ready to dive deeper into the aspects of tantra that require more two-way discussion, we have opened those additional six calls for them. There are also group calls, but there will be 12 of those, not six. So I recommend you to join the deep dive if you are curious and ready to explore the deep dive. And if you are just getting started, you're not sure whether you are ambitious about it or not, and you just want to get your meditation journey on a certain space, then join the signature program. And this is our conscious meditation signature offering.
The link is in the show notes. Join, and if you have any questions, reach out and we'll talk. Now, let's get into the episode. Why does misconceptions exist in tantra? There could be many interpretations of it. My take is because tantra is one of the ancient sciences of self-awareness, if not the most ancient. And when something is so primordial, so ancient, so rooted in the principles, so rooted in the spirituality, there will be confusions in how the message gets transferred from one teacher to another. This is why majority of tantra teachers, even till this date, they keep the teachings very private, very inclusive, so that there is less confusion and less abuse, less exploitation of that practice. And I fully support it because as we navigate tantra through the lens of social media, the lens of modern marketing, we see more mess and less clarity.
And in the modern times, it's a big task to run something in the most original, ethical way because that's a boring way. No one wants to try something boring. But guess what? Daily workout is boring. Daily writing is boring. Maintaining a diet plan is boring. Maintaining any practice that can elevate your spirits, elevate your professional and personal life, that's boring, but that's where the growth is. So when you get into disciplined yoga or tantra or any such ancient practice, it's not going to match with the glossy version of Instagram. It's going to be a lot more dry, a lot more repetitive at times but there will be a moment when you start to realize, "This is what I want, this is why I'm here."
And the entire game changes in that moment for you. I've picked few misconceptions, there are so many. So in case you come across a misconception or a confusion, write to me on Instagram at CBmeditates or at LeelaGurukul, or email us at info@LeelaGurukul.com. So we'll probably do another episode of debunking these misconceptions. So the number one misconception that all of us have heard zillion times is tantra and sex. Is tantra only about sex, pleasure or fun? No, it's not only about sex, pleasure or fun. Tantra means the signs of self-awareness. So right now, you are listening to me or watching me on YouTube, and there's a technology that's supporting this. And that technology is internet, your wifi. So you could use that wifi to listen to me right now or to watch a show or to do shopping or to do anything at all that you desire. It could be great, productive, creative, or it could be just killing your time.
It could be just anything you want to do in this moment, right? Tantra is wifi. It's only giving you the technology. It's only giving you the technique. What you do with it is your choice. All right? So when we say tantra is only about sex, it's like saying internet is only about opening Instagram. Internet is only about education. No, it's about zillion things. It depends on you, how you navigate it, how you use it. In tantra, we do not categorize the energy. There's no sexual energy, energy of anger, energy of greed, ego or spiritual energy. Tantra honors one energy, which is your prana, the pranic energy, the life force. Now, life force works very interestingly. The signs of life forces, if you do nothing with it'll simply be reactive, reactive to your mood, what you eat, what you think, what your intention is, how you interact with others, how you receive their energy, how you give your energy to them.
And above all, it'll react to the planets. So your astrology is not wrong when it predicts something about you. So if you do nothing at all with your prana, guess what? You're basically a puppet of your own energy, of your moods, your emotions, your fluctuations. When tantra uses sexual energy, it's using sexual energy to raise that frequency, to raise that channel of lust to the channel of love. Now, tantra does not say lust is bad. Tantra says, is there something more delicious, more everlasting than your physical orgasm, than your lustful fantasy right now? Or the lustful action? Because if you have indulged in lust, you must have experienced. Once the act of lust is over, what else is there?
You don't know. Either you repeat it until you get bored or something happens and you move on to the next object of lust. But has lust ever created a transformation? It becomes so mindless, so boring at times because you're repeating into an act which is not leading you anywhere. You're riding on this merry-go-round circle and you feel thrill. You feel as if you are onto something really interesting here. But at the end of the ride, you are tired, dizzy, you may want to throw up at times. I hope that doesn't happen to you. But the harsh reality is lust doesn't take us anywhere. And when tantric mystics understood that sex is such a weakness and it could be a strength, they started experimenting with the sexual energy. In the ancient times, they understood sex, sexual power as a deep inner strength.
So they conducted many experiments. But unfortunately, what we have now is the erotica version of tantra, where there is soft porn, acrobatic sexuality, mindless polyamory experiments, forceful monogamy experiments, and nothing comes out of it. So if we blame tantra, do you think it's right? Because what's happening is our lack of understanding of tantra is causing the confusion. And I'll share with you how we could break this misconception, how we could really channel it beyond the usual narrative. But I want to first break this misconception. Tantra is not about sex. It helps to transcend sex, and it also helps to transcend your anger, ego, greed, anything that has become a stagnant part of your personality, tantra will help you to go beyond it. Tantra is going to be so relevant, authentic tantra is going to be so relevant to the newer generation because I see, I notice there is a hypersexual collectiveness out there.
Everyone is reacting to the hypersexualized version of themselves. Social media is contributing to it. And when I was in high school, social media didn't exist, but there would be a few buddies around me, few classmates, a circle of friends who influence your actions and you want to do things to fit into that group, or you'll do things so that they fit into your group so you maintain a certain brand. But nowadays, a high school kid, a college kid doesn't have just five friends that they have to fit into. They have 5,000 friends, they have 600 strangers in their head that they have watched on TikTok, that they have watched on YouTube, and they want to fit into that realm. So clearly, sexual energy becomes one of the most messed up energy within them. And my sincere request to every young kid out there is to breathe, reflect on your sexual energy and ask yourself, how can I transcend it? What creative outlets can I create for it?
The next misconception is tantra a cult. It's black magic and it's based on immoral practices. The reason I always begin my perspective of tantra around the science of self-awareness, because that sort of becomes the foundation for everything that we can get into. Tantra is not black magic. And what is black magic by the way here, many of you may not even have heard of this word. So in the traditional sense, black magic is an immoral practice with the energy work. Where you invite certain energies, entities, spirits, even ghostly spirits, and use them to cause harm to someone, where you may channel a certain so-called evil energy to haunt or possess someone. So that's what black magic roughly is. And if you have seen my work, watch my work, while I may share my love for spooky world, you may have never seen me working with ghost and spirits. So tantra is not about this kind of spooky, culty stuff. But what happens here, what we call black magic is misuse of the knowledge, misuse of what you know about spirits, what you know about energies.
And one thing I can tell you, I have met and come across people who have been harmed through these practices, who have caused the harm through these practices. And it does not end well with anyone who tries to create this kind of experiment. Because first of all, this is not part of tantra, but I'm still going to explain what black magic really comes into. I'll take example of full moon night. On a full moon night, the energies are very intense. So the invisible entities or energies are restless, looking for a home, looking for a space. And there could be certain shamans, tantrics or certain people who know maybe a thing or two about energy, and they start to experiment with those energies, inviting them to cause harm to someone. Now do you think when that energy actually shows up? That energy doesn't care if you are inviting for good, bad, right, wrong. If that energy's intense, restless, violent in its nature, it's going to harm even the person who's inviting them.
And thankfully, these practices are less and less existing. They still exist in the remote parts of the world. So certain ancient villages where people may still experiment with these practices. I know certain people from India, parts of Mexico, parts of Africa, where they still mention the usage of these practices because it does belong to a certain cult. But that's not tantra. Why tantra is associated with something like this? Because tantra is the umbrella of all the energy work. So when that energy work turns out, is used correctly, tantra gets the credit. But when that energy work is misused or exploited, then of course tantra will get the discredit. It's like medical science. When certain doctors do great work, the medical science gets the credit. But when those not the same doctors, but when some other doctor will misuse or exploit that knowledge, that wisdom, of course the medical science will get the discredit. I hope that point becomes clear.
The next one is tantra is a religion. What do you think of it? I'm curious if any one of you ever understood that tantra is a religion and that's what you believed or that's what you were told. Religion is such an interesting concept. And I sincerely believe when the idea of religion was created, the names, the leaders in its original source work did not have any misaligned intentions. Their intention probably was to create harmony, structure, peace, a civilized energy system to cultivate self-awareness. But when that power is moved on from one teacher to another, one leader to another, things start to mess up greatly. Tantra always kept itself separate from religion. This is why it always irritated and annoyed the religion because tantra teachers were super clear that they are not part of religion.
I've never shared this on a public space, but I myself do not identify with the religion back in the, and this is not a new discovery, not a new self-awareness. Back in the college days when Facebook was launched, it had some funny questions on display. So it would reveal, it would mention things that are you, what's your relationship status, what are your views on politics, religion? So all those super personal questions were public and you could answer, of course, you had a choice of hiding them. So for me in religion, my answer was I'm not entrusted. And that was caps lock. I remember I changed it, I deleted it a few years ago when I just found Facebook to be so irrelevant for my work, for my stuff. And now I don't have a Facebook account, only a public page. But that was my view since college days. I don't identify with the religion only because the moment you say you are a Hindu, the ism of Hinduism, that's thrown on you. When you say you believe in Buddhism, the ism of budha is thrown at you.
I'm not a fan of any isms. I don't want to do anything with it. I have respect for the original source material because it was cultivated with a certain intention, but I personally follow the path of tantra. If in my family settings I have to take part in any religious system, I'll do what I can do within my own capacity, but I'll never, ever contribute to something that's just silly and blindly thrown at everyone in the gathering. Thankfully, my family sort of understands it. I don't know how much it annoys them, but that's just a decision I took many years ago. So tantra is not at all religion. In fact, tantra has contributed to the sanity of many religions as we see today. So when you practice tantra or yoga, you are practicing a wisdom, a traditional practice coming from the east, but you're not practicing religion.
Why? It may feel like a religion because there are Sanskrit mantras, right? There are mentions of the gods and goddesses that you also see in the Hinduism. In Buddhist tantra, there are mentions of devis - goddesses. So that may make you feel this is religion, but what we understand as religion is also not religion. I mean, when you go to the roots of Hinduism, you'll notice it was never a religion. It was a way of life. And I can say that about Hinduism very confidently because I have gone deeper into it. I can't say the same about other religions because I don't have enough knowledge or information to make a statement on it. But for Hinduism, I can absolutely claim that it was never designed to be a religion. And I genuinely feel the same about Buddhism, to be honest, that it was never designed to be a ism, a religion.
It was a way of life of practice. And when I meet certain Buddhist monks, I still, they still tell me that, "Yeah, we don't see it as a religion." So that's my take on misconception of tantra. The next one is and the last one here, tantra is complicated, inaccessible, and almost always require a partner. Tantra is not inaccessible. It's vast, it's infinite. There is so much happening in tantra that if you don't have that teacher, if you don't have a mentor, a qualified teacher, you'll be lost in it. I probably would not have gone into tantra if I didn't have a teacher. The only reason I found tantra to be a fun and joyful journey, because there is an authentic teacher that I got support of. And this is why I highly recommend to everyone, do not go into tantra simply by reading books. You can read books, but when you start to think, when your mind starts to believe, "I have read three books, so now I can practice tantra."
It's like saying, "I have read a book on swimming, so now I can jump into the ocean." You may learn a lot of technical side of swimming through the book, but if you simply jump into the water, you may drown, you may hurt yourself. And that's what happens when people dive into tantra by simply reading books or listening to podcasts, and I have said this in pretty much every podcast on tantra. Do not start practicing randomly simply because you've heard something on a podcast. Everything I've shared in Leela podcast, in my video, in my books, it's all very harmless information. You could overdo it, under do, it will benefit you. And that was a conscious decision because I realize I can't stop people to go intense or become more ambitious with their practice. And not everyone is going to be my client or student. And I also cannot take everyone as a client and student. So the information I've put out there is very much rooted in discipline and fun space.
When you work with me, the guidance, the instructions change because then I know you. And all this is to say, if you have been following a mantra or a practice by listening to the Leela podcast, you're fine, my friend. You don't need to worry. But tantra is not inaccessible. It's just vast. It requires a lot of learning, disciplined study, disciplined energy level because there is so much to go into. It's fun, it's playful, it's fascinating, and it becomes complicated only when you are trying to rush through it. It becomes complicated when you are not doing it the right way. I get messages from people who are very interested in tantra, and yet they will not join a program, they'll not study with a teacher.
And money is also not the challenge there, it's just that they don't want to go through that route because maybe it's tough for the mind to go through that route. Maybe it requires a certain bravery, certain courage, and they are not feeling ready for it, they're not feeling supported. But I hope you take that action. If you trust a teacher, if you trust a voice that makes you feel inspired, safe and creative, please reach out. Many teachers will be happy to speak to you and address your challenges. Now, there's another misconception I talked about in this one that it requires a partner. No, it doesn't.
When we talk about the sexual part of tantra, then of course the need of the partner arises. But even in the sexual part, there is so much you can do on your own to understand your sexuality, sensuality, to cultivate a deeper sense of the inner masculine, inner feminine, that we don't need to depend on another human for that. Tantra does not require a partner because so much of it is rooted in meditation, mantra, breath work, kundalini practices, chakra practices, and a deep sadhana, sadhana is the meditation practice. However, if you have a partner, I highly recommend you sit together and meditate. When you make love before the act of sex and after the intimacy, breathe together, be in silence together. Let it be a sacred experience where you are not expecting or performing or throwing your fantasy on each other, but simply being in that union.
That would be a powerful practice. And if you are solo, just playing your own game, continue to do it in the most sacred way. I feel, converting your bedroom into a sacred space is a great start. I don't recommend having an altar in your room, in your bedroom, but what about making your entire bedroom almost as sacred as an altar, which means flowers, candle, fragrance, fresh bedsheets, the fabric of the bedsheets, the clothes you wear. I mean, if you're going to wear extra large that's three years old, that may not be essential enough for even you to feel. But what about investing in something that could make you feel a bit happy, playful, easy, relaxed. Little things contribute. So all this is to say tantra doesn't require a partner. You can experience the heights and the peaks of tantra without a partner. And the breaking news here is a majority of tantric teachers that we know of, many of them did not even have a partner.
They were not married, they didn't have a partner, and they gave us some of the most powerful, fascinating teachings in tantra. I hope this is all fun and helpful because now we are moving into the second phase of this podcast, which is unleashing the artist in you and using tantra to cultivate, nurture the storyteller. And you'll notice so much of my work has always been focused around storytelling. And it's a conscious decision to make it even more relevant to the artist in you, to the storyteller in you, because that's one aspect of life I strongly relate to. That's also 98% of my clientele. That's also something I can talk forever without a break. And I do believe each one of you is an artist. Professionally, you could be doing whatever you are doing, but there is a storyteller in you. But that storyteller becomes alive and energized with the right people, with the right energies.
So that's my job here to unleash that storyteller in you and those who are already playing the role of an artist and a storyteller. My hope is that tantra work truly and sincerely take you through the peaks and the ecstasy of the storytelling. Now, how do we unleash the artist within and how do we cultivate the storyteller within us? Number one step is to understand the magic in your creativity. Now, being creative is a spiritual practice. When Shiva shared the notes on Vigyan Bairov Tantra to Shakti, his partner, he wasn't trying to create art, but it was done in such a artistic way that it became one of the most profound scriptures and teachings of tantric tradition. And Vigyan Bairov Tantra is the science of going beyond consciousness. Very powerful work.
What really is creativity? Two books are coming to my mind, I don't want to skip that. Number one is Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic. And the second one that I'm currently reading is Rick Rubin's The Creative Act. I love reading creative people talk about creativity because there is so much spirituality hidden in these books. There's so much sacredness hidden in these books. So I highly recommend you listen to it or read it, whatever way you consume. But in my perspective, being creative is an act of meditation. I remember when I first got the opportunity to write articles in the spiritual, sorry, in a business newspaper in college. I wasn't a professional writer, number one. So there's a brief story behind it. I think it would be wrong not to share the whole story. So I was, I think, a freshman or sophomore in college. I had to, it was I think Saturday evening and I had to go to the locker room to put my laptop or something, and the security person was giving me hard time.
She was like, "No, you can't go. This is beyond the school hours." I can't recall what was the challenge, but she wasn't of any help. And I used to be pretty grumpy about authority in those days. I still am, but now I can channel that grumpiness much better. In those days, I would simply be grumpy. I was also a teenager, so my problems and challenges with authority, then never faded away. They still happen. But now I am disturbed when they happen because I don't want to be that person. But in those days, I wanted to make sure that authorities disturbed. So that's where I think so much has shifted in the last few years. Anyway, so I spoke to her, she said, "No, I can't let you go in." So I took that very personally and I was like, I need to complain about her, but how do I write a complaint that's real? That makes a difference? Because she was watching a Bollywood movie on her laptop. And when I saw that, I was like, "You're watching a movie?" And this is New York, by the way.
She's watching a movie. This is a professional school, such a reputed school in New York. You are watching a movie. You're not helping this kid who wants to go into the locker room. So I wrote a full article about how the security in college is not helpful to the students, and I wanted to publish it in the university newspaper. And I kept on searching, searching the right source. Eventually I found a contact for the editor, the newspaper editor. I went to her room, she wasn't there. I spoke to her assistant and she said, "You have reached the right place. This is our newspaper office, and what you need to do is email this article to this address and copy me. And once we read the article, then we'll publish it." And I said, "That's it?" She said, "Yeah, if your article is liked by the editorial team, it's going to be published." And something happened in that moment. I saw the entire newspaper, the whole office room, and I was like, this is fascinating. What a good-looking room.
The words everywhere, people are typing, writing, researching. And I think I felt such a creative high that I wanted to be part of it. And I was like, now I know where to email. How do I publish it? But do I want to publish an article that's rooted in anger? No, I don't. So what do I do? I decided to change the article. So I'd never published that article on the school security. Instead, I published an article that was titled, Beware of What You Think. It Might Just Come True. It was about your thoughts, positive thoughts versus negative thoughts. They liked the article. They published it and they said, "This is first time a business newspaper is publishing a spiritual article. If you can send something like this every week, we'll give you your own column."
And I obviously loved that offer, but the challenge was I didn't know how to write in English. I mean, I wrote that article, but only I know the effort. I wrote multiple copies, then I shared it with multiple friends. They gave their notes. I remember I met someone in a New York train and we exchanged email and I even sent an article to her. She was a ballet dancer in New York, very kind, gentle woman. I even sent article to her and she sent her feedback. So this is how I was collecting feedback for even that one article. And I got nervous, how would I write? And I remember reading that email and laughing, and my teacher saw me, my father. And he said, "What's going on?" And I told him, "They want me to write an article, but I don't know the formal way of doing it."
And he said, "You got to say yes to it." And I said, "Dad, you don't know how to write in English. I don't know. Who will write?" And he said, "You will write. This is your destiny. You are a writer. You will be a writer. Don't say no. Figure it out after you say yes to them." So I did that. Now, here's the conclusion. Before every article, I used to struggle what to write, and I would have multiple books around me for the research and a laptop and a notebook, but I wouldn't know what to write. And then one day I felt, the only thing I know is meditation. So let me try that. And I started to meditate. As I was meditating, certain thoughts showed up and I started typing. And guess what? That became my ritual. In every article, even till this date, even before this podcast, I did that. I closed my eyes, I went through the whole process and thankfully now have a team. So there was an outline, but what do we talk about in that outline? I still don't write about it.
Anything and everything that shows up, I share it with you. And I think this is one of the things that also made the podcast very raw, because none of this is planned. The stories and what to share, what to hold back, it's just there. And that's my secret sauce of creative act. I meditate before every creative piece because tantric meditations helps you to access parts of consciousness, dimensions of your awareness that you're usually not able to do that. I want to connect to this point embracing creativity as a spiritual side to my second point about accessing the mystical, the unknown depths of your consciousness. Because that's what happened when I started writing those articles. When I got my book deal, same thing happened.
And now when I work with storytellers and I see them struggling to write a piece or to say a piece, or to memorize a script, whatever the struggle they are going into. I encourage them to meditate in a certain way with a certain mantra. And the magic happens. And I'm calling it magic, but it's not magic. It's normal. When you center your awareness, the scattered parts of your energy are gone. And what's left is your center of consciousness. All the other thoughts of the past, future, all the should, the doubt, the fear, everything is gone and all that remains, it's just you with your creative process, the unknown starts to show up. And you are unstoppable after that. So tantra empowers you to embrace creativity as your spiritual practice. Listen to the Sacred Hours episode. That will be really powerful. The second aspect is tantra helps you to access the unknown, the mystical realms of your consciousness.
The third one is tantra helps you to transmute your sexual energy into creative energy. I'm curious, how many of you experience a certain creative power when you're also feeling very sexual? Or let's say there's a certain week when you're feeling very sexual, but you're not really releasing it yet. You're not releasing it through self-pleasure or pleasure with someone, but you're simply feeling sexual. How does the productivity show up for you that week? I want you to observe it, maybe in your journal or maybe make a document. When you are feeling, for the lack of better word, horny, when you have that sexual urge. When you feel, "This is it, I'm going to be the, I'm going to give and receive the greatest orgasms that ever exist." When you're going through that kind of energy, but you're not releasing it, instead you choose to use that energy to do something creative, I want you to experiment.
How does that flow for you? Because that's one of the fascinating aspects of tantra. Tantra because sexual energy is one of our great inner forces. And if we confine to it, if we give up or give in to the sexual energy, then we are simply sneezing it out. And sometimes it's fine to sneeze, but not all the time because there's not so much fun in always impulsively releasing it. So what I'm pointing out to here is how tantra helps you to raise the energy from the lower chakras to the higher chakras, through the right mantra, right intention, right practice. And then you use the absurd in your sexual energy into your creative energy. And I guarantee you, my bold promises, you are going to create the kind of work that even you had not imagined. You'll surprise yourself, but it doesn't happen in one week. It's like saying, what if I eat salad for three days? Would that entirely change my body system? No, never.
We have been eating a certain kind of food for so many years, changing it for three days or three weeks, not going to make a big difference. But if you stay consistent to it, even if you blend in two days of salad, two days of some other food and one day you cheat in a food that you can really enjoy, that could really make difference. But you have to make a plan, stick to it, and then have fun with it. So tantra transmute your sexual energy and create or channel a creative expression out of you that will blow your mind. All right? Next pointers are a little advance in the tantra teachings, but I'll share it. Let's hope that lands well with you. There is a goddess in Hinduism called Goddess Saraswati. She's known as the goddess of art, literature, speech. Now, there is a tantric form of Goddess Saraswati called Goddess Matangi. Another tantric form is Goddess [foreign language 00:47:44].
You don't need to memorize the names, but understand what's happening here. When you meditate on these goddesses and with the right mantra, right energy, because meditating on her randomly is like going to gym and lifting 300 pounds. You'll get hurt.
You may even fracture your muscles, your arms, legs. But at the right time, when you move into a dimension, energies like Goddess Matangi, Goddess Saraswati, [inaudible 00:48:21]. They help you to receive information that is beyond your information, beyond your memory, beyond what you've learned. So they enable you to receive something that you have no clue of. That's the true unknown, blooming like a lotus for you. That's where energy starts to shift. That's where you start to write, sing, create stuff that's beyond everyone's imagination. That's the power of tantric energies. And Goddess Matangi is one of the 10 prime goddesses called the group of Das Mahavidya, the 10 prime goddesses in tantra. In the conscious meditation, we focus on specific mantras for Goddess Matangi. We focus on specific mantras to transmute your sexual energy. Not to plug in the program, but I can't help but share how the conscious meditation program was designed to give the most authentic, deeper experience of tantra.
Anyway, next pointer in this realm is the chakras. I'll talk about specifically three chakras here, heart, throat, and third eye. Heart chakra is the psychic chakra. Again, it helps you to feel things. You could be sitting on a mountain or by the water, and you can feel things, you can experience things that feel unreal. You may hear sounds that may not make sense, but that's your heart chakra, inviting a new information. I've spoken to many storytellers, and this is how they've started getting the ideas after they started to meditate. Heart chakra is a harmless chakra. When you meditate on it, you could open mystical sides of your personality, mystical sides of your storytelling. Next one here is throat chakra. I'm looking at time. We are already 50 minutes up in this podcast, so I'll not rush, but I'll wrap up soon. Throat chakra is the Vishuddha chakra, which means the one that filters.
So whatever heart chakra receives the throat will filter that information. It'll filter and transmute that energy. So by the time that energy moves to your third eye, you are creating one of the finest expression of your story. You are creating one of the finest form of your poetry. This is how three chakras work with each other through the tantric glimpse. Now, when you read books, they give such a generic affirmation based work on chakra. They tell you, this is what the color is, these are the affirmations. Even the most successful authors only stick to such a confined definition of chakra. But imagine using your chakras to write stories, to manifest projects that can absolutely turn around your life. That's what tantra is capable of doing, but you have to move into it the right way, slowly, organically, gently. This process is not to rush.
And the final thing that I want to conclude with is aim, action, intention, meditation. In order to unleash the artist in you, in order to truly tap into the energy of your creative power, you have to blend in action, intention, meditation. Do not leave even one point outside of the zone. Your meditation has to be consistent. Intention has to be clear, and action has to match with the intention. I hope that's clear. And before we wrap up, the big idea of conscious meditation is intention setting. Intention, it's such a sensitive part of your sadhana that you could be meditating forever, but if there's no right intention, you are putting your efforts all in the wrong direction. So one thing we work really hard in conscious meditation is to help you craft your intention in the most conscious way, in the most safe, fun, playful way. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. If you did, let us know. And if you wish to join Conscious Meditation, you know what to do. If you know of someone who wish to join, please share this link with them. Be safe, be well.
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